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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

newscience.com.au

IIS7

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

801 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newscience.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newscience.com.au performance score

100

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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1012 ms

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75 ms

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99 ms

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75 ms

jquery.js

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Newscience.com.au, 11% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Newscience.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

873.9 kB

After Optimization

538.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newscience.com.au main page is 873.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 414.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 12.7 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 41.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 356.4 kB
  • After minification 342.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Newscience images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 241.5 kB

  • Original 414.8 kB
  • After minification 413.4 kB
  • After compression 173.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 241.5 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 9.4 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Newscience.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (45%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newscience. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

newscience.com.au accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

newscience.com.au best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

newscience.com.au SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newscience.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Newscience.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

newscience.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Newscience. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: